Sunday, March 12, 2017

I got lost in the woods (prose poem)

I got lost in the woods looking for you. I wandered until the glow of the summer sun faded to darkness and a pale moonlit fog crept around me. I thought you would be there, somewhere hidden among the trees. You had to be there. I looked everywhere else. But you weren't.

I got lost in the woods looking for you, and you weren't there. I sat in the cricket silence and felt the fog pass over me, pass through me as if I was a ghost. But if I'm dead, then I died the moment I went looking for you, when I ran off chasing an impossible dream, giving up the life I had for one that could never be mine.

I got lost in the woods looking for you, and as the pale moonlit fog envelops me, I only wish I had known what a hopeless endeavour it was.

-Zero

1 comment:

  1. Hope. Hope is the answer, my dear friend. A light who shines under very abyssal depths of one's truest heart. Heart can feel Hope, and only the heart sees where did Hope go.

    An act of Hope is an act of Love, of friendship, of kindness and of courage. As your fake-self dies, the true-self may reborn once again.

    This poem is deeply thought. Thank you for your sharing.

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